Analysis

Canadians are running out of excuses for our sky-high emissions. Not only is the EU cutting emissions as a group, but every one of its 27 member nations (except the tiny island nation of Cyprus) has as well.

International climate change negotiations are kicking off this week in Azerbaijan, with trillions of dollars that will decide the fate of the planet’s warming trajectory set to be negotiated against a global backdrop of worsening extreme weather.

Trump may be a climate-denying fossil fuel booster, but the climate science isn’t changing. The crisis is real, it is here, and much work remains to cut global emissions in half by decade’s end — as scientists say is urgently required.

As international biodiversity talks get underway in Colombia for COP16, political turmoil at home is jeopardizing Canada’s nature protection plans.

The prospective conservation area would stretch down the western edge of Hudson Bay on Manitoba’s Arctic coastline, producing an increase in resources, regulations and support to ensure a healthy coast in the sensitive low-arctic waters. Churchill, along with several First Nations, will decide the project's fate, government officials and environmental campaigners told Canada’s National Observer.

Clean50 event, in its 14th edition, brought together 150 delegates to brainstorm green transition solutions in areas ranging from clean finance to sustainable construction, renewable energy to climate action education

But there are many ways Indigenous voters can and do — or do not — get engaged in politics.

The island of Taiwan and its strait the Taiwan Strait are the gateway to the South China Sea which stretches from Taiwan to Malaysia. One third of the world’s shipping traffic sail through these waters every year. And because of this Taiwan is one of the most dangerous flashpoints in global politics today.

This episode looks at the new race for power – literally. The United States is challenging Asia for dominance in production of the tiny semiconductor chips that help reduce reliance on fossil fuels and will expand and advance artificial intelligence. And technological power will be the key to national power in this century. And to the competition between the U.S. and China.

Say energy storage and most imagine EV lithium-ion batteries. But a range of "long duration" concepts that store power for weeks rather than hours are coming to market, among them one called high-density hydro that uses a mud-brown slurry pumped through a long loop of plastic pipe on a hillside to store energy until it's needed. With first systems now being built, the technology could change the way renewables-powered grids work in the future.

A fossil fuel financial bubble is growing as financial institutions pump over a trillion dollars into the sector, even as the need to transition off coal, oil and gas is paramount to avoid climate catastrophe. Is it time to put the Bank of Canada to work?

Lumber was once the most commonly used building material before concrete and steel took over in the 20th century. Now reborn as mass timber, wood may be on the cusp of a comeback as the building sector steps up its green transition.